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T.'O.LOVE, Jr

BOOK BINDING.

. Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS 0. LOVE, JR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOOK=BIND|NG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,865, dated February 12, 1889.

Application filed April 16, 1887. Serial No. 235,050. (Modeh) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS 0. LOVE, J11, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Book-Bindings, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in book-bindin gs; and it consists in securing the outer signatures of a book to the intermediate signatures or main portion of the volume by means of diagonal or oblique stitches, as herein described and claimed.

The two figures represent perspective views of abook bound inaccordance wit-h my invention, the usual bands on the back of the signatures being on'iitted, not forming a part of this invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of a book, and B the signatures; C, the back, and D the joints.

E represents stitches, each of which is passed obliquely through the outer signatures at the side thereof to the back of the body, as at E, and alternately along said back and side in parallel rows, as at E E it being noticed that said rows are at each side of the signatures in the hollow of joint and back and the thread crosses the back at the end thereof.

The ends of the stitches are secured or fastened in any suitable manner. In the present case the ends of the stitches are glued or otherwise cemented to the signatures and back, as at E.

It will be seen t-hatby means of the stitches as constituted the front and back signatures thereof are kept intact, allowing them to open no farther than the stitches, and as said stitches are pulled tight the paper is prevented from being. torn, as is occasioned by the use of the wellknown overwhipping stitches of the front and back signatures.

The manner herein described of stitching signatures together is designed to be applied to the outer signatures, as shown in the drawings, so as to prevent their breaking loosetherefrom, and not to the intermediate signatures or main portion of the volume, which are secured or fastened together in any wellknown manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In book-bindings, stitches passing obliquely through the signatures of a book from the side thereof to the back of the body and alternately on said side and back, substantially as described.

2. A book provided with stitches passing obliquely through the signatures from the sides thereof to the back of the body and alternately along said back and sides in parallel rows, substantially as described.

3. In book-bindings, stitches passing ob liquely from the side of one outside signature through the same into the adjacent signature and out at the back of said adjacent signature, thence along the back of said signature and into the same, and obliquely passing through the same and the first signature and out at the side thereof, the said stitches alternating 011 the back and side, respectively, of said signatures and in the direction of their length, substantially as described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me.

'TI'IOS. 0. LOVE, JR.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

